Going to keep this quite short and sweet and show you some really quick ways on how to get some SEO love.
This is by NO MEANS an SEO guide!
These are not for you if you are just setting up a new site or page.
But if you need a quick push in the search engines. Or you are at position 11 and want to be in the top 10, then these work great for me:
1. Go and put a link to your website on the relevant page on Wikipaedia. They are nofollow but also v powerful.
2. Create a blogger blog and put a unique article on with a link to your main site.
3. Email the top 10 people in Google for your chosen keyword phrase. Be friendly and say something unique about their site.
4. Do 3 quality comments on related blogs.
5. Answer 5 Yahoo answer questions about your subject.
Told you it would be short 
Please post any other quick tips below.
Keeping it real in an unreal world,
Ben Shaffer
Ben,
Thanks for the post but could you elaborate on tip #3 a little bit? Are we trying to get a link from them or what? I’m not sure how just sending an email can help with SEO.
Thanks
Sorry not to be clearer.
You are writing to try and get them to put a link
to your site.
The point is, that if they are high up the search
engines for your keyword phrase then a link from
them will be valuable.
I generally write each email individually, but
here is one I sent on Monday which got me a link:
Hi Jackie,
I hope that all is well.
Very much appreciate your site and have referenced it a number of
times on my network of xxxxx sites.
I was wondering if it was possible to put a link up to my yyyy
site at http://www.sdfsdfsdf.com on your page about yyyy at:
http://www.domain.com/kkkkk/iiiii
Thank you in advance.
Best Wishes,
Ben Shaffer
Not an amazing email, but it worked, so who’s to argue
Hey Ben,
Great info as usual. I do #1 but have been lax at the others. The blogger tip is awesome. Never thought about that as I have been so immersed in wordpress. Here’s another tip I thought might be important. Create a squidoo lens with a relevant article and link back to your website. As with blogger it can offer up some link juice to get you into the top ten.
Thanks,
Barry
Love these tips! But, I’m not sure about the first one…how does someone add link to our websites from Wikipedia? I don’t see an area for comments. Can you explain this or do you know of an article or video that can explain how to do this?
You are very correct regarding your tip#1 as wikipedia can definitely help one rise one or two positions as google do value quality no follow links. Thanks for showing the world that message should be like skirt, short enough to arouse the interest and long enough to cover everything.
Regards
Very interesting SEO tricks!
Quick question, does it apply to any keywords, or any Websites Niches?
Since this is a quick push for the people “already” at position 11 that want to be in the top 10…I think that it should be very easy to rank for any keywords, doesn’t it? I’m Curious
Regards,
Hamilton
Not really sure what you are asking.
Sorry for the confusion.
I meant to say, what about the competitor?
For example, the age of his domain, the total of his back-links, his authority, his website content, etc…
Does that mean we can beat their ranking by just following these “5 Quick SEO Tweaks” above?
If so, very interesting:)
I contacted Wikipedia to see where I could do what was suggested where they simply told me that this was not done as they are a No follow organization. They then abruptly disconnected from the chat session. I could not find a way to set up a link from their sit.
If you search on Wikipedia for an article related to your expertise, you could then edit that article to add new information and reference your website as a source. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the tips Ben.
While most are common sense SEO actions, #3 is counter intuitive & clever.
Hamilton – Naturally the page 1 entries are not of equal strength … while Ben’s quick tips are not a guarantee that you will beat all competitors for all keywords, often a little push from Ben’s diverse tips is enough for you to pip #10 or one of the others.
Regarding Yahoo Answers – There is a lot of misconception. I YA tested intensively. Answered dozens of questions and had the top answer in more than 75% of all my answers! I got … wait for it … ZERO impact on my target PR3 site that was already doing ok.
AND I got not even one follower/fan! Now I know Yahoo (like all social networking sites) would love me to invite my list/fans to join & follow me on YA. But that defeats the object of being there. So from practical intensive testing experience I’d say YA is a waste of time. AND it is a no follow .. though I agree Wikipedia is different eventhough no follow.
Hope this helps
Sami
Hello,
Thanks for all the great (and short) tips. I haven’t ever liked Yahoo Answers either but did not know it was this bad…
I prefer tumblr, squidoo and hubpages, even after the latest updates. Just make sure to add some quality or you might as well save your energy.
Cheers,
Vince